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...makes hu . . . humidity?" asks a little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con Edison electric plants humming. This summer New Yorkers broke all records for the amount of electricity used in a single hour. But it's our job to anticipate your needs...
Macmillan has gained popularity through the Ike-Khrushchev meeting-which Macmillan supporters credit him with sparking-and has seemingly not been hurt at home by Labor's effective jabs at British colonial failures in Africa. But above all, Macmillan owes his popularity to Britain's current prosperity. Two years ago Macmillan gambled on a politically unpopular anti-inflation budget and an unprecedented increase in the bank rate to 7%. This year these austere fiscal policies of the Conservatives have paid off-in more ways than...
...smaller but deeper scale is the new course (tuition: $1,000) at Syracuse University's Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, which is aimed at training U.S. graduate students for foreign jobs with business and Government. Last week Maxwell's current eight students were finishing up three months' intensive study of U.S. society and policy, Italian culture and language. They will soon go to Rome for four more months of living with Italian families and adapting their skills (economics, journalism, forestry) to the country...
...want the fans to think I'm afraid of the bulls." Last week, with the horn wound in his right thigh still unhealed, Dominguin went into the ring at Bilbao for another mano a mano with boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, his brother-in-law, in their current series to decide who is bullfighting's el primero (TIME...
...Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise, chops wood regularly. And he does not worry about his investments. Last week's plunge of space-age stocks left him unconcerned. Says he: "It looks like a long overdue technical correction. The current basic trend of the market...